Read full poem →For a superber Race—they too to grandly fill their time,
For them we abdicate—in them ourselves, ye forest kings!
In them these skies and airs—these mountain peaks—Shasta—Nevadas,
Dictionary Entry
To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “abdicate”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.